Owanate Amieyeofori is the City's Fifth Grade Spelling Champ

Thank you! Special thanks go to Ms. Helen Henkel of the Exchange Club of Yonkers and to Dr. Jane Dorian, the pronouncer for the Spelling Bee. See the Program

If you ask this erudite Kahlil Gibran fifth grader to spell success, don't be surprised to hear the letters "s-o-l-i-t-a-i-r-e", which she gave in the correct order to win the 44th annual Citywide Fifth Grade Spelling Bee last night. Right on her heels were second place winner Noor Abdullah from the Andalusia School and in third, Roksolana Sikyrynska from PEARLS.

Sponsored by the Exchange Club of Yonkers, the Fifth Grade Spelling Bee has been a Yonkers tradition for more than four decades, involving thousands of children in classroom and schoolwide elimination contests as they move up to the Citywide Finals. This year, forty-five schools sent students to the competition.